Tudun Biri villagers in Igabi Local Government Area of
Kaduna State have dragged the Nigerian Government to court.
The villagers are demanding the sum of N33 billion
compensation following the recent airstrikes by the Nigerian Army that killed
over 100 persons.
Counsel to the villagers, Mukhtar Usman Esq., filed the suit
on December 8 before a Federal High Court in Kaduna.
The villagers are also demanding an apology to be published
in at least three national dailies.
They said the suit was to enforce the fundamental rights to
life of the survivors of the incident.
Among the reliefs sought is “a declaration that the act of
striking dead, by way of aerial bombardment of the deceased victims herein
while celebrating the Islamic Maulud at their village of Tudun Biri in Igabi
Local Government Area on the 3rd day of December 2023 by the personnel under
the command and supervision of the 3rd respondent (the Chief of Army Staff)
amounts to a violation of the deceased victims’ fundamental rights to life as
enshrined in Section 33 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, 1999 and Article 10(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples
Rights (Ratification Enforcement) Act (Cap 10) LFN 2010.”
No date has been fixed for hearing of the suit.
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